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Martin Bassani's avatar

If they desire you to live in 15 minute cities, they don’t want you to travel. Travel will once again become a very rare experience for the average human. Costs of travel will continue to increase. Of course, they will never tell us the true reasons why more people are getting sick. They are counting on our slavishness.

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Irena's avatar

Eh, I don't see anything particularly wrong with the article. Yes, older people (as well as young children) are more likely to get sick than other people, including when traveling. Assuming you don't want to just let sick tourists die (now there's an idea... might do something to fix the touristocalypse that so many cities are dealing with), someone has to pay for their medical care. My preferred solution would be for countries to require travelers to have adequate insurance when entering their country, so that the tax-payers of the destination country don't end up footing the bill.

As for Mr. Haagensen and his (lack of) hobbies: don't know about you, but when I'm legitimately ill, I cannot engage in activities that require a lot of brain power, and that would include reading. Me, I'd just listen to some podcasts with half a brain, which is not too different from watching TV.

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